Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as I was considering building a home in Austria and putting in some annuals, our chores finally came to an end. Four weeks and umpteen transatlantic phone calls after it began, I returned home-richer, thinner, sporting a veneer of Weltschmerz and the ability to do a staggering imitation of R. Burton, which is pretty effective, if not particularly useful...
...Divine Light Club resembles no one so much as another better-known tightly-knit religious group: The Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship. At another level, the psychic attractions of the two groups seem to be similar. In members of both one finds a wide-eyed sense of salvation under the veneer of conformity and an eagerness to expound on the glory of it all. Like their Christian counterparts, they speak of the security that knowledge gives...
...Rabe's tone is pejorative, like that of a prosecuting attorney who is pressing play goers to confess that all men are bloody-minded beasts. There is no court of appeal in The Orphan. God is dead, absolute power has produced absolute corruption and society is a cracked veneer of hypocrisy...
...tried to make people sit back and think what boxing is really saying," Costin said last night. "Boxing's intent is to deliberately maim. It upsets me that we can justify brutality through the veneer of referees and rules...
...auto mufflers, they have to move too quickly to bother with the valuable branches (which are used for furniture legs and braces) or roots (which are made into gunstocks). All they want are the trunks, which they winch onto a truck and sell to sawmills to be processed for veneer...